One handed fantasy revenge story title/author needed
pigstaub
seventies. Cover has a muscular warrior with a large spike studded
morning star where his right hand should be (possibly Jeff Jones or
Frazetta artwork) Okay here goes, a kingdom overthrown by evil baron.
The king is slain and the baron has had the 9-10 year old heir to the
thrones right/sword hand cut off to discourage him from coming back
later to retake the throne by force. The old king’s loyal court mage
spirits the prince away from the castle to a place of safety. Using
powerful ,dark magic the sorcerer sends the one handed boy into
another dimension/hell whatever. In this land warriors from all times
past battle endlessly (like the Norse heaven Valhalla). Time passes
much more quickly there and in just a short while in the princes own
world in the battle land he grows to manhood as a fierce warrior who’s
stump has been fitted with a golden mace (a morning star, I also
believe that might have something to do with the title). The mage
brings the magically aged prince back to his own world and sets him on
his way to reclaim the throne that is rightfully his. Really enjoyed
reading this book and would like to find a copy to supplement my
rereads of my teen years.
BillGill
It might be something called _Prince of Morningstar_, or something like
that. I vaguely recall that, but it apparently isn't in my collection.
Try googling on that.
Bill
pigstaub
showed the cover and it is the book.
The Sword of Morning Star by Richard Meade. Thank you So much
i_kissthesky!
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showed the cover and it is the book.
The Sword of Morning Star by Richard Meade. Thank you So much
i_kissthesky!
Spider Jerusalem
@newsfe06.iad:
> One handed fantasy
I don't want to be puerile, but...I can't help it. Didn't anyone else think
what I thought when I read that?
(One handed fantasy REVENGE would be...yiiaaaa, I don't even want to know!
;-)
Yours apologetically, and definitely most juvenilely,
Spider J.
William George Ferguson
wrote:
Sword of Marningstar by 'Richard Meade'. There was a sequel (not as good)
titled Exile's Quest.
Richard Meade was a pen-name for Ben Haas.
--
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
(Bene Gesserit)
Gene
news:Xns9AE2C140E322BSp...@216.196.109.145:
>> One handed fantasy
>
> I don't want to be puerile, but...I can't help it. Didn't anyone else think
> what I thought when I read that?
Of course not. In fact, no one else has a clue what you even mean.
Kurt Busiek
Wayne Throop
:: I don't want to be puerile, but...I can't help it. Didn't anyone
:: else think what I thought when I read that?
: Of course not. In fact, no one else has a clue what you even mean.
It's an allusion to Mike Resnick's "Soothsayer" series, right?
It was a time of Giants. [...]
There was Backbreaker Ben Ami, who wrestled aliens for money and killed
men for pleasure. There was the Marquis of Queensbury, who fought by no
rules at all, and the White Knight, albino killer of fifty men, and
Sally the Blade, and the Forever Kid, who reached the age of nineteen
and just stopped growing for the next two centuries, and Catastrophe
Baker, who made whole planets shake beneath his feet, and the exotic
Pearl of Maracaibo, and the Scarlet Queen, whose sins were condemned by
every race in the galaxy, and Father Christmas, and the One-Armed
Bandit with his deadly prosthetic arm, and the Earth Mother, and Lizard
Malloy, and the deceptively mild-mannered Cemetary Smith.
Giants all.
--- Intro to "Soothsayer", by Mike Resnick
Wayne Throop thr...@sheol.org http://sheol.org/throopw
Rich Horton
<SpamMeHardA...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>BillGill <bill...@cox.net> wrote in news:jY%gk.6331$CY7.3743
>@newsfe06.iad:
>
>> One handed fantasy
>
>I don't want to be puerile, but...I can't help it. Didn't anyone else think
>what I thought when I read that?
>
Well, yes ... but I did resist the straight line!
Dan Goodman
I had the same thought also.
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pigstaub
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> BillGill <billne...@cox.net> wrote in news:jY%gk.6331$CY7.3743
Come on now, your showing you learned to type in one of those lolita
chat rooms. (heh) One handed midnight typing.....a skill that has
broken up many a marriage.
Gene
5a80f5...@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com:
> Come on now, your showing you learned to type in one of those lolita
> chat rooms.
Those are great. You on one end, and a cop eating Krispy Kremes, belching,
and pretending to be a 12 year old girl on the other. You, of course, are
pretending to be a pedophile because you have a thing for sedentary, middle-
aged cops.
Johnny Tindalos
>:::: One handed fantasy
>
>:: I don't want to be puerile, but...I can't help it. Didn't anyone
>:: else think what I thought when I read that?
>
>: Of course not. In fact, no one else has a clue what you even mean.
>
> It's an allusion to Mike Resnick's "Soothsayer" series, right?
[Snip brilliant intro that makes me not want to read the _Soothsayer_
books because I do not think that Resnick is a good enough writer to make
them live up to that! Would love to be proved wrong; is this likely?]
> and the One-Armed Bandit with his
> deadly prosthetic arm,
So he got Evil (artificial) Hand syndrome (without being an employee of
Wolfram & Hart) and *that's* the reason for the title of this thread?
I see now.
And to think certain people made such sordid insinuations, too!
;-)
pigstaub
> thro...@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) wrote innews:12166...@sheol.org:
Actually that's not the reason. I just wanted to find the story I
forgot (which was accomplished). But I was entertained by the
direction of the thread. I haven't read this Resnick story. Please
enlighten me with a synopsis.
Wayne Throop
: Actually that's not the reason. I just wanted to find the story I
: forgot (which was accomplished). But I was entertained by the
: direction of the thread. I haven't read this Resnick story. Please
: enlighten me with a synopsis.
It's a series of three books, Soothsayer, Oracle, Prophet.
Set in his "inner frontier" setting, along with Santiago and others.
I think about six or maybe eight books in all set there/then.
The setting is basically a western, with planets on the inner frontier
(ie, towards the center of the galaxy) taking the role of isolated lawless
towns in the old west, and concerns the various larger-than-life
characters that inhabit it.
The series in question follows the life of a woman (a small girl, to
start with) who can predict the future, and various people who conclude
she needs to be eliminated, onaccounta being too dangerous to live, and
who therefore try to do so. Mayhem and adventure ensues. Some (but by
no means all) of the characters listed in the blurb upthread show up.
And some extras. Man-Mountain Bates, the Iceman, and many more.
Some of them show up in the other books in that setting, unrelated to
this trilogy. Mostly, in this case, they show up a short period of time,
after the bounty that has been put on the title character's head, and then
get defeated. It *is* a bit of an advantage to be able to see the future.
IIRC, the One Armed Bandit is one of those dispatched in this way.
I liked it, but would agree that it really doesn't/can't live up
to the intro, since the closer to you get to such mythic critters,
the more they seem diminished. Though... that's sort of a theme,
or at least a common narrative thread.
http://www.amazon.com/Soothsayer-Penelope-Bailey-Mike-Resnick/dp/1932100512
http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Penelope-Bailey-Mike-Resnick/dp/1932100768
http://www.amazon.com/Prophet-Penelope-Bailey-Mike-Resnick/dp/193377133X
( these seem to be trade paperback reissues )
David Goldfarb
Johnny Tindalos <Jama...@UnrealEmail.arg> wrote:
>thr...@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) wrote in news:12166...@sheol.org:
>
>>:::: One handed fantasy
>>
>>:: I don't want to be puerile, but...I can't help it. Didn't anyone
>>:: else think what I thought when I read that?
>>
>>: Of course not. In fact, no one else has a clue what you even mean.
>>
>> It's an allusion to Mike Resnick's "Soothsayer" series, right?
>
>[Snip brilliant intro that makes me not want to read the _Soothsayer_
>books because I do not think that Resnick is a good enough writer to make
>them live up to that! Would love to be proved wrong; is this likely?]
Having read that trilogy, I would have to say no, it doesn't remotely
live up to that inro. Terrific concept, some odd development, then
an end that is a massive anticlimax.
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Johnny Tindalos
news:g69lvn$cpt$1...@agate.berkeley.edu:
> In article <Xns9AE49156BA5CDJa...@216.196.109.145>,
> Johnny Tindalos <Jama...@UnrealEmail.arg> wrote:
>>thr...@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) wrote in news:12166...@sheol.org:
>>
>>>:::: One handed fantasy
>>>
>>>:: I don't want to be puerile, but...I can't help it. Didn't anyone
>>>:: else think what I thought when I read that?
>>>
>>>: Of course not. In fact, no one else has a clue what you even mean.
>>>
>>> It's an allusion to Mike Resnick's "Soothsayer" series, right?
>>
>>[Snip brilliant intro that makes me not want to read the _Soothsayer_
>>books because I do not think that Resnick is a good enough writer to
>>make them live up to that! Would love to be proved wrong; is this
>>likely?]
>
> Having read that trilogy, I would have to say no, it doesn't remotely
> live up to that inro. Terrific concept, some odd development, then
> an end that is a massive anticlimax.
>
Thanks for letting me know.
I think I'd rather keep the cool imagery the intro suggested, and hit
Amazon for the new Greg Bear instead.
Cheers,
Johnny T.
John Schilling
>: pigstaub <pigs...@yahoo.com>
>: Actually that's not the reason. I just wanted to find the story I
>: forgot (which was accomplished). But I was entertained by the
>: direction of the thread. I haven't read this Resnick story. Please
>: enlighten me with a synopsis.
>
>It's a series of three books, Soothsayer, Oracle, Prophet.
>Set in his "inner frontier" setting, along with Santiago and others.
>I think about six or maybe eight books in all set there/then.
>
>The setting is basically a western, with planets on the inner frontier
>(ie, towards the center of the galaxy) taking the role of isolated lawless
>towns in the old west, and concerns the various larger-than-life
>characters that inhabit it.
>
>The series in question follows the life of a woman (a small girl, to
>start with) who can predict the future, and various people who conclude
>she needs to be eliminated, onaccounta being too dangerous to live, and
>who therefore try to do so. Mayhem and adventure ensues. Some (but by
>no means all) of the characters listed in the blurb upthread show up.
>And some extras. Man-Mountain Bates, the Iceman, and many more.
>Some of them show up in the other books in that setting, unrelated to
>this trilogy. Mostly, in this case, they show up a short period of time,
>after the bounty that has been put on the title character's head, and then
>get defeated. It *is* a bit of an advantage to be able to see the future.
>IIRC, the One Armed Bandit is one of those dispatched in this way.
The One Armed Bandit doesn't meet his doom until _Return of Santiago_,
in which he plays a major portion of the title role.
The outlaw/revolutionary Santiago, it turnes out[1], is a franchise
operation somewhat akin to the Dread Pirate Roberts. In the sequel,
a would-be biographer decides to revive the franchise, but overlooks
the obvious in favor of various candidates only superficially suited
for the job.
Resnick doesn't quite pull it off in this one, either, but he comes
fairly close. And, to some extent, makes a virtue of his failings,
in that it's mostly a story about why e.g. the OAB really can't be
guy all that mythic poetry is about. I'll forgive him the obvious
resolution for the reasonably entertaining journey.
[1] in the original _Santiago_.
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